Stella Maris (novel)

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Stella Maris
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Author Cormac McCarthy
Audio read by Julia Whelan
Edoardo Ballerini
LanguageEnglish
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date
December 6, 2022
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages208
ISBN 978-0-307-26900-3
Preceded by The Passenger  

Stella Maris is a 2022 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy that was published on December 6, 2022. [1] It is a companion novel to The Passenger . [2] It was the final novel published before his death on June 13, 2023. [3] It consists primarily of dialogue with little narration, exploring the nature of the protagonist's delusions and topics such as quantum mechanics and phenomenology.

Contents

Plot

The novel follows Alicia Western, a math prodigy conflicted by her father's contributions to the American development of the atomic bomb. [2] The entire novel is set in 1972 in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, at the titular Stella Maris, "a non-denominational facility and hospice for the care of psychiatric medical patients," as stated on page 3 (the only page that is not written in dialogue). The novel consists of a "series of conversations between Alicia and her psychiatrist, Dr. Cohen, written like a play but with no exposition, stage directions, or dialogue tags. The subjects include mathematics, quantum mechanics, music theory, and obscure philosophy." [4]

Development

In a 2009 interview, McCarthy said that he had been "planning on writing about a woman for 50 years". [2]

Publication

Announced in March 2022, [2] Stella Maris was published by Knopf on December 6, 2022, [1] one month after its companion novel The Passenger . [2]

Translations

As of mid-2024, the book has been translated into:

References

  1. 1 2 Grobar, Matt (March 8, 2022). "New Cormac McCarthy Novels 'The Passenger' And 'Stella Maris' To Be Published By Knopf This Fall". Deadline. Archived from the original on August 3, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Cain, Sian (March 8, 2022). "Cormac McCarthy: two new novels coming in 2022, 16 years after The Road". The Guardian . Archived from the original on August 3, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road, dies aged 89". BBC News . June 13, 2023. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy".
  5. ↑ Cormac McCarthy (2024). Stella Maris. The Passenger, 2 (in Czech). Argo. p. 200. ISBN   978-80-257-4369-0.
  6. ↑ Cormac McCarthy (2023). Stella Maris (in Polish). Literackie. p. 268. ISBN   978-83-08-08133-4.
  7. ↑ Cormac McCarthy (2024). Sutera Marisuステラ・マリス (in Japanese). Hayakawa Publishing. p. 272. ISBN   978-4-15-210310-9.
  8. ↑ Cormac McCarthy (2022). Stella Maris (in German). Rowohlt Verlag. p. 240. ISBN   978-3-498-00336-4.
  9. ↑ Cormac McCarthy (2023). Passageraren; Stella Maris (in Swedish). Albert Bonniers Förlag. p. 678. ISBN   978-91-0-019924-1.
  10. ↑ Cormac McCarthy (2023). Stella Maris (in Korean). Munhak Dongnae. ISBN   978-89-546-9662-3.
  11. ↑ Cormac McCarthy (2022). El pasajero / Stella Maris (in Spanish). Literatura Random House. p. 624. ISBN   978-84-397-4070-4.
  12. ↑ Cormac McCarthy (2022). Stella Maris (in Norwegian). Oslo: Gyldendal. p. 220. ISBN   978-82-05-57704-6.
  13. ↑ Cormac McCarthy (2022). Stella Maris (in Dutch). De Arbeiderspers. p. 208. ISBN   978-90-295-4753-6.
  14. ↑ Cormac McCarthy (2023). Stella Maris (in Italian). Einaudi. ISBN   978-88-06-25958-7.
  15. ↑ Cormac McCarthy (2023). Stella Maris (in French). Éditions de l'olivier. p. 250. ISBN   978-2-8236-1971-3.
  16. ↑ Cormac McCarthy (2022). Stella Maris (Em Portugues do Brasil) (in Portuguese). Alfaguara. p. 184. ISBN   978-85-5652-162-0.
  17. ↑ McCarthy, Cormac (2022). Stella Maris. The Passenger (in Greek). Vol. 2. Translated by Greek: Γιώργος Κυριαζής. Gutenberg. p. 263. ISBN   9789600123999.
  18. ↑ McCarthy, Cormac (2023). Stella Maris (in Romanian). Translated by Iulia Gorzo. Humanitas Fiction. p. 216. ISBN   9786060973249.
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